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ACCRUED AND OTHER LIABILITIES
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
ACCRUED AND OTHER LIABILITIES  
ACCRUED AND OTHER LIABILITIES

NOTE 17.       ACCRUED AND OTHER LIABILITIES

Accrued and other liabilities consisted of the following:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As of

 

    

December 31,
2019

    

December 31,
2018

Accrued Property Taxes

 

$

44,232

 

$

12,312

Reserve for Tenant Improvements

 

 

617,968

 

 

100,519

Accrued Construction Costs

 

 

93,270

 

 

350,593

Accrued Interest

 

 

1,312,801

 

 

1,430,236

Environmental Reserve and Restoration Cost Accrual

 

 

205,774

 

 

520,404

Operating Leases - Liability

 

 

364,888

 

 

 —

Other

 

 

3,048,259

 

 

2,783,820

Total Accrued and Other Liabilities

 

$

5,687,192

 

$

5,197,884

Environmental Reserve. During the year ended December 31, 2014, the Company accrued an environmental reserve of approximately $110,000 in connection with an estimate of additional costs required to monitor a parcel of less than one acre of land owned by the Company in Highlands County, Florida, on which environmental remediation work had previously been performed. The Company engaged legal counsel who, in turn, engaged environmental engineers to review the site and the prior monitoring test results. During the year ended December 31, 2015, their review was completed, and the Company made an additional accrual of approximately $500,000, representing the low end of the range of possible costs estimated by the engineers to be between approximately $500,000 and $1.0 million to resolve this matter subject to the approval of the state department of environmental protection (the “FDEP”). The FDEP issued a Remedial Action Plan Modification Approval Order (the “FDEP Approval”) in August 2016 which supports the approximate $500,000 accrual made in 2015. The Company is implementing the remediation plan pursuant to the FDEP Approval. During the fourth quarter of 2017, the Company made an additional accrual of approximately $51,000 for the second year of monitoring as the low end of the original range of estimated costs was increased for the amount of monitoring now anticipated. Since the total accrual of approximately $661,000 was made, approximately $577,000 in costs have been incurred through December 31, 2019, leaving a remaining accrual of approximately $84,000.

Restoration Accrual. As part of the resolution of a regulatory matter pertaining to the Company’s prior agricultural activities on certain of the Company’s land located in Daytona Beach, Florida, as of December 31, 2015, the Company accrued an obligation of approximately $1.7 million, representing the low end of the estimated range of possible wetlands restoration costs for approximately 148.4 acres within such land, and such estimated costs were included on the consolidated balance sheets as an increase in the basis of our land and development costs associated with those and benefitting surrounding acres. The final proposal for restoration work was received during the second quarter of 2016 which totaled approximately $2.0 million. Accordingly, an increase in the accrual of approximately $300,000 was recorded during the second quarter of 2016. During the first quarter of 2019, the Company received a revised estimate for completion of the restoration work for which the adjusted final total cost was approximately $2.4 million. Accordingly, an increase in the accrual of approximately $361,000 was recorded during the first quarter of 2019. The Company has funded approximately $2.3 million of the total $2.4 million of estimated costs through December 31, 2019, leaving a remaining accrual of approximately $121,000. This matter is more fully described in Note 21 “Commitments and Contingencies.”

Operating Leases – Liability. The Company implemented FASB ASC Topic 842, Leases, effective January 1, 2019, resulting in a cumulative effect adjustment to increase right-of-use assets and related liabilities for operating leases for which the Company is the lessee.